Iwao Hakamada, a death row inmate, has received a historical 217 million yen ($1.14 million) in government compensation for ...

Iwao Hakamata, 89, who was acquitted in a retrial over the 1966 murder of a family of four in central Japan, has been awarded ...

TOKYO -- Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp. plans to build a data center on property where JFE Holding once operated a blast furnace in Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture, as it strives to meet the ...

Shizuoka, March 25 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese court has granted Iwao Hakamata, who was acquitted in a retrial last year over a 1966 murder case, some 217 million yen in compensation for being ...

Overseas tourists are flocking to lesser-known destinations and novel services in a district on Japan’s northernmost main ...

A Japanese man who spent nearly 50 years on death row before he was acquitted of murder will be compensated 217 million yen ...

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office has begun "detention for evaluation" to determine the criminal responsibility of a 42-year-old man suspected of killing a 22-year-old woman while she was ...

Japanese man Iwao Hakamada was found not guilty of quadruple murder after 46 years on death row and was awarded 3p for every ...

The longest-serving death row prisoner in the world who was wrongfully convicted has been awarded $1.4 million.According to ...

A Japanese man identified as Iwao Hakamata has been declared innocent and set free after being wrongfully convicted for a ...

At that time, he found a job that offered “500,000 yen to 1 million yen” on a website where Vietnamese nationals illegally living in Japan exchange information. The job was to steal bonsai trees.

Hakamata, 89, was found guilty in 1968 of killing his boss, his boss's wife and their two children, but was acquitted last year after a retrial A Japanese man who spent nearly 50 years on death ...